kmail and kwallet

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On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 06:29:06 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Friday 08 February 2013 06:24:38 phanisvara das did opine:
> Message additions Copyright Friday 08 February 2013 by Gene Heskett
> 
> > On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 04:40:44 -0500
> > 
> > Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > > > and kwallet in general can be configured to use no password,
> > > > which is perfectly safe on a singl user system. if others (who
> > > > you don't trust) use the machine, better keep a password.
> > > 
> > > Now that I'd like to do if only the pw requester would steal
> > > focus.  It doesn't so its 2 extra mouse clicks, 1 to wake up the
> > > mouse and one to change focus, to get focus so you can enter your
> > > pw.
> > > 
> > > 10.04 LTS 32 bit system here.  If you can point me to the right
> > > files to edit to get rid of the pw requester, I'd appreciate it.
> > 
> > i'm afraid i don't understand the problem. if you do what i
> > suggested, kwallet won't pop up anymore at all, since there's no
> > password to ask from you.
> > 
> > to do that open the kwallet manager (or whatever it's called),
> > usually it sits in your taskbar somewhere. right-clicking on the (or
> > any, if you have more than one) allows you to change the password.
> > once you set both to "" (blank), there's no botheration anymore.
> > 
> > as was mentioned in a previous thread some time, the passwords are
> > still encrypted on disk, but kwallet won't require a password once
> > your user is logged into KDE.
> 
> The problem is, there isn't such a beast on this machine.  It is
> whatever that after starting kmail, pops up and asks for my user pw,
> when I send the first mail after the start.  It doesn't grab focus so
> you wind up typing blind until the click once to wake the rf mouse up
> so you can see the pointer move, find the requester and click once on
> it.  That is kwallet, but a fairly diligent search fails to find a
> configurater for it.
> 
> Cheers, Gene

Did you tell Kmail to store the passwords as plain text in the config
files   always worked for me   .

I always turned kwallet  off it was a PITA  i finally gave up on kmail
and this akonadia  thing    Claws Mail is every bit as good  which is
where i am now .


Pete .


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